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A91187	A fresh discovery of some prodigious new wandring-blasing-stars, & firebrands, stiling themselves nevv-lights, firing our church and state into new combustions. Divided into ten sections, comprising severall most libellous, scandalous, seditious, insolent, uncharitable, (and some blasphemous) passages; published in late unlicensed printed pamphlets, against the ecclesiasticall jurisdiction and power of parliaments, councels, synods, Christian kings and magistrates, in generall; the ordinances and proceedings of this present Parliament, in speciall: the national covenant, assembly, directory, our brethren of Scotland, Presbyterian government; the Church of England, with her ministers, worship; the opposers of independent novelties; ... Whereunto some letters and papers lately sent from the Sommer-Islands, are subjoyned, relating the schismaticall, illegal, tyrannical proceedings of some Independents there, in gathering their new-churches, to the great distraction and prejudice of that plantation. / Published for the common good by William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3963; Thomason E261_5; ESTC R212456	96,461	90

nor hell Onely I shall adde that some of these persons have acted as contemptuously against these Ordinances as they have written and printed For Master Henry Robinson the supposed Author of the Arraignment of persecution A sacr●d Decretal M●●tyns Eccho and other most scurrilous seditious Libels hath maintained a private Printing-presse and sent for Printers from Amsterdam wherewith he hath printed most of the late scandalous libellous Books against the Parliament and though he hath been formerly sent for before the Committee of Examinations for this offence which was passed by in silence yet he hath since presumed and proceeded herein in a farre higher straine then ever besides John L●lburne being questioned before that Committee by speciall Order of the Commons House for printing his libellous Letter contrary to th●se Ordinances hath pending his very Examinations contemptuously printed and dispersed abroad his false and scandalous Reasons delivered in to that Committee for printing his former libellous Letter with some marginall ●nno●ations and a scandalous libellous Petition Remonstrance as formerly Articles against Colonell King to omit other printed unlicensed Papers an insolent contempt not to be parallel'd at least not to be tolerated Secondly I shall proceed to their libellous scurrilous and seditious Invectives against the Ordinance for payment of Tythes which Iohn L●lburne in his forementioned libellous Letter thus affronts charging the Parliament with no lesse then perjury and breach of their Covenant for making it Page 4. 27. If you put the parliament in mind of their Covenant tell them I think they have sworne to root out all Popery and therefore have lately abolished the Common-prayer that great Idol but yet have established Tythes c. the very root and support of popery which I humbly conceive is a contradiction of their Covenant and which will be ● greater snare then the Common-prayer to many of the precious consciences of Gods people whose duty is in my judgement to dye in prison before they act or stoop unto so dishonourable a thing as this is to their Lord and Master as to maintaine the black-coats with Tythes whom they look upon as the professed enemies of their anointed Christ he that payes Tythes is subject to the whole law of tythes in which there was a Lambe to be brought for a sinne Offering which is abolished also he that was to take Tythes was one that was to offer sacrifice daily for sinne which if any doe so now it is to deny Christ come in the flesh and to be the alone sacrifice for sinne by his death and so overthrow all our comfort joy and hope A most insolent scurrilous and seditious passage to stirre up the people to rebell against this Ordinance This Libell is thus seconded in the seditious pamphlet instiled the Arraignment of persecution in the Epistle Dedicatory To the Reverend learned Prolocutor Assessors the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland and the rest of the Venerable Assembly of Divines now sitting in holy Convocation at Westminster Reverend Sirs According to my duty at your divine entreaty I have reduced those pious instructions received from you unto such a pleasing forme as I hope shall not only affect but abundantly edifie the people of this Kingdome under your holy jurisdiction for considering your spirituall care over them and how your time hath been token up wholy in the procurement of that sacred Ordinance for Tythes wisely thought o● before the Directory for he is an Infidell and denieth the faith that doth not provide for his Family c. and pag. 26. lib. Consc My Lord the Defendant smels of a fat benefice see see his pockets are full of presbiterian steeples the spires stick under his Girdle ha ha ha instead of Weather-cocks every spire hath got a black-box upon it and in it the pure and imaculate Ordinance for Tythes Oblations c. sure shortly instead of Moses and Aaron and the two tables we shall have Sir Simon and Sir John holding the late solemne League and covenant and that demure spotlesse pretty lovely sacred divine and holy Ordinance for tythes the two Tables of our new Presbyterian Gospell painted upon all the Churches in England O brave Sir Simon the Bels in your pocket chime all-in ours chime all-out I pray give you a funerall Homily for your friends here before you depart here 's twenty shillings for your paines you know 't is sacriledge to bring downe the price as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen Sop. 38. My Lord but our dissembly Doctors teach otherwise yet I think if your Lordship should settle Anabaptistry or the like even that which they now persecute and threaten preach and pray against and forwarne the people of as hereticall and damnable provided you should endow it with goodly fat Benefices and sanctifie it with the halowed Ordinance for Tythes offerings oblations c. questionlesse the generality of those persecutors of Anabaptists would have the wit to turne Anabaptists for their Religion is moved upon the wheele of the State Our Temporizing Doctors our state Protestant Ministers are not so simple to swim against the streame they are wiser in their generation for they know most wealth goes that way as long as our Ordinance is laden with Tythes offerings oblations they 'le be sure to give fire but should the State deprive their Religion of all Ecclesiasticall revenue of parsonages tythes c. yea should it be this very Presbytery they so aime at that they should so impoverish certainly we should have more parishes then Presbyters more steeples then Doctors then they would not be so hot for Presbytery or zealous to persecute its opposers I would your Lordship would make tryall call in but your Ordinance for tythes and turne them to the good will of people and then a tythe-Pig will be sold for a pennie Page 44. there is this scurrilous Quere put among others 5. Whether the late divine Ordinance for tythes offerings oblations and conventions be not better Gospel and in all Presbyterian wisdome to be preferred and provided before the Directory for the worship of God O cives cives quaerenda pecunia primum Virtus post nummos Many more clauses of like nature are in this prophane Libell which I pretermit But that which is the most audacious contemptuous seditious publike affront of all others against the Ordinance is the prophane scurrilous Libell intituled A Sacred DECRETALL nor Hue and cry from his superlative holinesse Sir Simon Synod for the apprehension of reverend young MARTIN MAR-PRIEST In the front whereof there is the picture of a Bull tossing Sir Simon Synod on his hornes and trampling the ordinance for Tythes under his feet with this inscription upon it ORD for TYTHES And page 2. this explanation of it nothing appeareth but a Bull tossing Sir John upon his hornes and stamping the blessed Ordinance for tythes under his cloven feet O PROFANE MARTIN O wicked

God-fathers and God-mothers Pers My Lord Master Ecclesiasticall supremacy and Master Scotch-government are my God-fathers Mistris State-ambition and Mistris Church-revenue are my God-mothers and I was sprinkled into the Assembly of Divines at the taking of the late SOLEMNE LEAGVE AND COVENANT Judg. 'T is strange that at the making of the late solemne League and Covenant blood-thirsty persecution should be anabaptized present Reformation then HERE 's A DESIGNE OF BLOOD IN THE COVENANT if under the name of Reformation the Clergy have infused the trayterous blood-thirsty spirit of persecution into it J. Human. My Lord there was never any Nationall or provinciall Synod but strengthned the hand of persecution and that under the vizor of Religion J. Reason As soon as these underling Divines are from under their Episcopall Taskmasters and beginning to encroach upon your Lordships power they presently take this notorious bloody traytor persecution stript by your Lordship of his High-commission habit and out of their zeale dresse him in a divine synodicall Garbe and change name from persecution and christen him Reformation so to engage your Lordship and the Kingdome of England and Scotland in blood to settle and establish bloody persecution BY COVENANT over the Consciences of honest and faithfull men to the State under the specious and godly pretence of Reformation page 39. By the late SOLEMNE LEAGVE and COVENANT good Lord deliver us The sacred Decretal runnes in the same straine page 13. 19. When we had introduc'd the Brethren of the holy League we so joyned their hands in the Synodian hands of Presbytery that their League could not be inviolate their COVENANT the bed of their contract undefiled if our presbitry were not concluded Martyn will tell the people that we contrive Oaths and COVENANTS meerly to ensnare and catch the people in our wiles make them carry a face of Reformation according to the Word of God and thereby betray their innocent subscription to our presbyterian construction John Lilbourne in the unlicensed printed Reasons of sending this Letter pag 4. complaines against the Parliament that the COVENANT was as earnestly prest upon tender consciences though their faithfulnesse were no what doubtfull as upon Newtrals and Malignants and refusing because of some expressions put from Offices of trust and publike imployments Yet most of our sectaries and Independents in immitation of the Cavaleers have entred into Ants covenants against this SOLEMNE COVENANT in their private Congregations to defend● and maintaine their owne Independent government even to blood c. whatever forme of government the Parliament shall establish the very extremity and height of seisme and sedition if not of professed rebellion against supreame Authority which makes them thus to villifie traduce and contemptuously refuse the taking of this SOLEMN COVENANT and plead exemption from it for feare of dis-ingaging so faithfull considerable A PARTY as they have in the Army who in time perchance will prescribe their new Church-covenants unto us or else exclude us from our Native soyle as now they doe from their Independent Congregations and the Sacraments unlesse we will submit unto them Section IV. Containing sundry scurrilous seditious libellous railing and blasphemous Invectives against the Assembly of Divines the Presbyterian Members of it and their proceedings though summoned nominated continued and directed in all things by Ordinances of both Houses of Parliament BEfore this Assembly met by Order of both Houses or had given intimation what kind of Ecclesiasticall Government they intended to fix upon our Independent sectaries not only petitioned for such an Assembly to be called but made meanes that as many of their party as possible might be elected Members of it But when at last they discerned the Assembly and Parliament to dis-affect their anomolous absurd Independent way as having no foundation in Divinity nor Policy and tending to utter confusion in Church State and thereupon to incline to a Presbiteriall government embraced by all reformed Churches in the Christian world upon this they presently begin to declaime against the Assembly and their proceedings in private and soon after to libell against them in-publike with such unchristian uncivill approbrious Billingsgate termes as I am confident no Oxford Aulicus or Satyricall cavaleere is able to paralell their very tongues and pens being doubtlesse set on fire of hell And not contented herewith they lately conspired together to exhibit a petition to the Parliament for present dissolving the Assembly and sending them hence to country cures to prevent the setling of any Church-government to which end they met at the Windmil Taverne where Lievteu Col. John Lilbourne a fit instrument for such a seditious designe sate in the chaire and Master Hugh Peter suggested the advice which was accordingly inserted into the Petition but the counsell-men smelling out the designe when the Petition came to their hands most discreetly left out that request as seditious and unjust which yet the libellous Author of Martyns Echho page 15. hath since in wish renewed in these scandalous termes You have as neere as you can made a third party in labouring by your Jesuiticall machiavilian subtilty to divide the Parliament contrary to the trust reposed in them from the godly party who have assisted them with their estates and blood and to deny those their faithfull friends of their just deservings their purchased freedomes which should they doe they would be branded as infamous to posterity even unfaithfull ungratefull c. at meliora spero I hope better of them if your wicked Machiavilian Assembly were but taken from them and sent to their particular charges In what sort they have libelled against them hath partly appeared in other Sections but I shall give you a more particular account thereof in this I shall begin with that most infamous seditious railing Libell intituled The Arraignment of persecution the whole scope whereof against the Assembly is thus boldly expressed in the very Title page The Arraignment of Master Persecution presented to the consideration of the House of Commons and to all the Common people of England In the prosecution whereof the Iesuiticall designes and secret encroachments of his Defendants Sir Simon Synod and the John of all Sir Johns Sir John Presbiter upon the liberty of the subject is detected and laid open by reverend young Martyn Marpriest sonne to old Martyn the Metropolitan printed by Martyn Claw-Clergy Printer to the reverend Assembly of Divines for Bartholinew Bang-Priest and are to be sold at his shop in Toleration-street at the signe of the subjects liberty right opposite to Persecution-court 1645. The seigned License and Epistle Dedicatory to the Assembly before it are altogether libellous as is the whole book against the Assembly and its Members I shall give you only a taste of some phrases and epithites in it viz. Such a holy such a reverend Assembly such a Quagmire of croaking skip-jack Presbiters A reverend synodian disguised with a sophisticall paire of breeches saving your presence in

Goodwin or they shall at last after long expectation set down in Writing If yea that contradicts their owne Profession and Prot●station in their Apollogy takes away that liberty of conscience they contend for and Attributes a greater Authority to them alone to oblige their party then to the whole Parliament or Synod If no then certainly it is vaine to exspect a set 〈◊〉 of Church-government from those fluctuating Divines who till neither under-take to oblige themselves or others for the future by anything they resolve on or practise for the present and a meare sottishnesse for any people to depend upon such unstable weather-cocks and roling stones who know not where to rest or settle And that way certainly can be none of Christs on which the very prime sticklers for it d●re not absolutely and immutably to fasten for the future what ever they pretend for the present 5. Whether publike preaching prophefying and expounding the Scriptures by Independent Souldiers Taylors Weavers and other illiterate Mechanicks neither publikely called to not fitted for the Ministry especially when and where there are able painfull preaching Ministers to instruct the people be not a most exorbitant arrogant scandalous and disorderly practice no where warranted by Gods word but directly condemned by Numb 18. 21. 22 23. c. 16. 3. to 41. 2 Sam. 6. 6. 7 2 Chron. ●6 16. to 23. Ier. 14. 14. c. 27. 19. Hosea 4. 4. 9. Mal. 2. 7. 2 Chron. 17. 8. 9. Neb. 9. 4 5. c. 12. throughout Mat. 28. 18. 19. 20. Mar. 16. 14. 15. 20. Acts 20. 28. Gal. 6. 6. Hebr. 13. 17. c. 5. 4. 1 Tim. 3. 2. c. 4. 14. 16. 2 Tim. 4. 2. 5. Rom. 10. 14. 15. 1 Cor. 12. 28. 29. c. 14. 29 to the end Tit. 1. 7. 9. Contrary to the very light of Nature the Priests among all heathen Nations whatsoever being distinguished from t●e people and not all promiscuously Priests Gen. 42. 22. 26. 2 King 17. 32. 1 Kings 12. 31. 32. Zeph. 1. 4. Acts 14. 13. And quite opposite to the practice of all christian Churches in all ages ● 6. Whether Mr. Hanserd Knols the illitterate Anabaptist his Moderate Answer to Dr. Bastwicks booke p. 19. 20. where he averres That the condition upon which people are to be admitted into the Church are Faith Repentance and BAPTISME and NONE OTHER And whosoever poore as well as rich bond as well as free servants as well as masters did make a profession of their faith in Christ Iesus land would be baptized he meanes re-baptized into he should say in the name of the Father Son and holy Spirit were admitted Members of the Church but such as did not beleeve and would not be baptized though formerly baptized by others they would not admit into church communion And that this hath bin the practise of some churches in this city ●ithout urging or making any particular covenant with members upon admittance Doth not herein diametrally contradict his other Independent brethren who exact particular covenants from their new admitted Members and do not re-baptize them Whether he hath not plaid the Anabaptisticall jugler with Mr. Cranford in printing onely Imprimatur IA CRANFORD in the title of his Booke and leaving out the preceding formall words of his License to the great abuse both of the Reader and Licenser viz. I have perused this Treatise called A Moderate Answer to Dr. Bastwick which THOUGH● IUDGE ERRONIOUS yet to satisfie the desire of a Friend and prevent the cavils of some Adversaries I oppose Imprimatur Ia Cranford And whether these and such like practices proclaim not the Anabaptists such as Dr. Foa●ly proves them A False and lying sect if not blasphemous too as the premised Sections declare some of them to be A Transcript of a Letter lately written from the Sommer Islands to William Prynne of Lincolnes Inne Esquire relating the Schismaticall Tyrannicall and Seditious Proceedings of the Independents there and how they Lord it over the soules and bodies of those who dare oppose them how contemptuously they speak against the power of Parliaments the Church of England and scandalize all others whatsoever who are not of their Faction Which Gods Providence newly brought to my hands from thence when I was closing up the premised Discovery Worshipfull Sir ALI health happinesse and prosperity wished unto you as to mine owne soule The occasions moveing me at present to trouble you with these unprofitable papers are great and many and happily I being a stranger unto your Worship you may account it more then boldnesse yea even peremptory saucinesse in me to presume to write and crave favour to and from one who never had the least knowledge of me But the manifold reports I have heard of you by divers good Christians emboldeneth me but especially seeing your good works which I have perused with care and diligence which from Mr Sparks his brother I procured enforceth me so much the more in this my boldnesse not doubting but that you are a true hearted Christian truly fearing God embracing piety and hateing iniquity a faithfull well-willer to the Church of God and to all the Israel of God and to all true Israelites who with faithfull hearts love the Sion of God truly and sincerely without hypocrisie or halting between opinions dessenting from it in any by or false respects the which are the only causes moving me hereunto And for which I have suffered and a●● and have beene these thirteen mōnthes prisoner in bonds for standing in defence and an opposite unto or against a certaine Independent Church hatched and forged in the braines of our Divines and by them constituted erected and fully accomplished and with us held in great repute and adoration yea and the Actors of it not as men but even as demy gods attributing that unto them which is only proper unto God especially unto their Pastor Mr VVhite the chiefe Actor of their Faction a most seditious turbulent and hatefull malicious person and as politick as Achitophell and as crafty and subtle as the Devill having as he holds the world in hand that by his wisedome none can excell him in the lawes both Ecclesiasticall and Civill and therefore amongst us a company of poore simple ignorant and undiscerning people he is so accounted of as all his words are oracles and himselfe no lesse sent from God and therefore whatsoever he saith is and must be a law whether it concernes Body Soule or Conscience for he cannot crre so perfect is he in their conceits And if Christians in griefe and distractions of soule and conscience at their courses shall sue unto our Rulers for redresse of their factious aud seditious courses by way of humble petition for a cessation of those things till we shall heare from England what Discipline the high Court of Parliament and Synod hath concluded upon and that to embrace and follow then shall we presently be summoned to an Assizes and there undergoe such penalties as by